thing about the locked tomb that really resonates is that the apocalypse has both happened already and is still happening. the worst (annihilation of natural life on earth) has happened and is happening (genocide, enslavement, mass migration of dispossessed and traumatised asylum seekers). the is relevant to us all living in the midst of climate crisis but also particularly to those living in colonised countries. t muir is a kiwi and as an australian, living in a place your ancestors invaded and stole, living in a place you are in the process of killing, living in the edges of an empire of expanding death? it’s been apocalypse for centuries, for indigenous people.
capital and empire are the opposite of organic life, and taz does a good job of embedding that in the books without ever saying it outright.